Study/Theology
Hope in God’s Future – Christian Discipleship in the Context of Climate Change
Prepared by a group of Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Church representatives, ‘Hope in God’s Future’ is a significant new report exploring the theology of climate change.
There is also a study guide available for purchase or download.
God’s Creation Our Challenge
To download – the video is available in two different file sizes: High Resolution (28.9 MB) and Low Resolution (6.6 MB) (The High Resolution version is best for projection before an audience.)
God’s Creation Our Challenge High Resolution (28.9 MB)
God’s Creation Our Challenge Low Resolution (6.6 MB)
To save this file to your computer: Right-click on the link and choose ‘Save Target As’
Eco-Spirituality power point show “See, Grieve, Hope, Act” by Ruth Jarman
Articles for Parish / Church Magazines from Christian Ecology Link.
Here is a list of other Lent resources recommended by CEL members and others.
Use MRDF’s Bible study pack on climate change in your Lent group, housegroup or youth group – and don’t just change your light bulbs – change your life!
U.N. Development Human Development Report 2007/2008; ‘Fighting Climate Change’. Director and lead author: Kevin Watkins.
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. Read it online
Christian Aid has produced in-depth reports about the price poor people are already paying for global warming.
Book Reviews
A Moral Climate – the ethics of global warming by Michael S. Northcott, Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh and a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Darton, Longman and Todd. Read this review by Jo Rathbone.
Changing Climate, Changing Church Rev’d Peter Doodes looks at this short book produced for CCC (Catholics for a Changing Church)
Christianity, climate change and sustainable living; by Nick Spencer and Robert White SPCK, 2007
‘The Global Warming Survival Kit’; by Brian Clegg, Doubleday 2007.
Heat; by George Monbiot, Penguin 2007.
‘The Last Generation’; by Fred Pearce, Eden Project Books 2006.
‘The Long Emergency’; by James Kunstler, Atlantic Books 2005.
‘Saving Planet Earth’; by Tony Juniper, Collins 2007.
‘Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet.’; by Mark Lynas, Fourth Estate 2007.
‘When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability’; edited by R.J. Berry, IVP 2007.
